Any content based filtering (blacklist, whitelist, whatever) will limit access to useful (non-pornographic) information. Maybe a better solution would be to have the users police themselves. For example, get the email addresses and names of the parents of all users under 18. Log all usage and design software that will automatically send an email list of all domains visited during each session to the parental email address. The parents can then look through the hyperlinks, see if they object to anything the child is viewing, and then deal with the problem as they see fit. Kids don't get porn, no information is censored, and parents know exactly what their children are using the net for.
Adam Larson
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Any content based filtering (blacklist, whitelist, whatever) will limit access to useful (non-pornographic) information. Maybe a better solution would be to have the users police themselves. For example, get the email addresses and names of the parents of all users under 18. Log all usage and design software that will automatically send an email list of all domains visited during each session to the parental email address. The parents can then look through the hyperlinks, see if they object to anything the child is viewing, and then deal with the problem as they see fit. Kids don't get porn, no information is censored, and parents know exactly what their children are using the net for. Adam Larson